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The fact that they have emergency reserves of masks is in itself pretty wild.

It's California. We get wildfires. I had medical N95 masks at home as well. Gave them to the hospital when they appealed for them.

It makes sense. If it weren't for Facebook not having this reserve we would just be 720k short. It's not like the companies selling these would just hold inventory, especially since if you store them too long the elastic and the seal becomes weak across a large enough sample.

Yeh wild-fire.

More like pretty irresponsible to keep them until up until the government said they are gonna confiscate them.

Source on "the government said they are gonna confiscate them"?

Look at Trump’s press release today.

Care to be specific? Here’s all of them: https://www.whitehouse.gov/news/

Just watch their update from today. Their said: "If you have a stash of masks, we'll be knocking on your door."

Google: No results found for "If you have a stash of masks, we'll be knocking on your door." The query without quotes also doesn’t show any relevant hits on the first two pages.

Also: the Facebook story is from Sunday. It’s not very likely that it is a reaction to a press conference on Monday, is it?

You and all the other Trump supporters should stop making stuff up and/or learn to link to sources at least after being asked repeatedly to provide them.

I feel already damaged listening to Trump for over one hour. Watch the update yourself and you will hear it 1:1. I do not want to go thru that torture again! All his "update" could be compressed in one short paragraph.

Maybe one day I will propose a Trump compression algorithm as his vocabulary is very limited and he keeps repeating the same nonsense a million times hoping on inducing some hypnotonic effect in his low-IQ fans...

Low-IQ is not a choice. Mocking people for having a lower IQ is the same as mocking someone born without an arm or a leg or any other sort of genetic or birth defect that one has no control over. Those who suffer from mental retardation have low IQ. Should they not be spoken to in a way they can understand? Trump recognizes that everyone in the country has vastly different levels of intelligence, and speaks in a way that everyone can understand. I'm not sure why that's a point of criticism other than someone who thinks their natural intelligence somehow makes them better than others.

Nonsense, the kinds of low-IQ folk that can follow any presidential speech can understand 'new flu-like virus' instead of 'Chinese virus'.

He is scum.

You clearly understand I was not referring to people with medical conditions. He doesn't say anything meaningful and definitely does not do it so that people with disabilities can get him. If that was his strategy, he would speak slowly, and not go in circles and confuse everybody, and force his people to publish clarifications after all the confusion he brings us with his TV appearances!

The John Goodman looking guy said it here in today's briefing:

https://youtu.be/YdpxrgXldsY?t=4186

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